Hang With Friends

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Come on in, pull up a chair!

Picture yourself spending some time with congenial friends, sharing your lives and pictures from your cell phones." They're curious about that cool game, song, movie, camping trip, art show, or other event that fascinated you. You talk about all kinds of stuff, poetry, styles, personal achievements, relationships, and bad days. You can share your inner child, and laugh together. They sympathetically listen to your feelings about serious topics like politics or climate change, even when they don't agree.

Personal validation comes from paying attention to one another, giving more than you get. Everyone respects you and themselves, despite our amazing range of personal tastes and interests. They'll tell you they don't agree with an idea or behavior without implying you're a bad person or somehow deficient. It's an "I'm OK, You're OK" kind of fellowship, where nobody tries to make himself look better by picking on somebody else.

Nobody here is into mind games. A discussion started with a loaded guilt-throwing question will be deleted.

This group is not intended to compete with other groups on topics they cover but to "fill in the cracks." Whenever a discussion dwells at length on a topic for which there's an existing group, we urge you to provide members a link to that group to continue along their tangent.

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I'm one of the world's most uncoordinated people. I didn't know why until an old Peanuts cartoon put me on the right track: mixed brain dominance. I'm right-handed but left-eyed. Couldn't catch a moving ball if my life depended on it. That made me a figure of fun at school because no-one there had ever heard of the phenomonen. Most people still haven't and don't believe me when I tell them.

When those pix were taken, I was 5' 4" plus skates. They numbered us from shortest to tallest 1 thru 12 Twelve girls each for stage left and stage right.. I was usually a five. Meant I had to skate pretty fast to catch the damn wheel, but not as hard as my roommate who was 4' 11".

The very tallest girls got to wear the really fancy costumes, and just glide around...showgirls. I'm 5' 2" now.

There were 24 girls and 12 boyz on the ice in a full chorus production number...and 7 or 8 big production numbers in a show...not counting solos and pairs...so we 5 or 6 of us got to sit out at least one number, but we still had to learn them all, in case someone was sick or injured.

The bear costume was part of a "Circus" number...there were 3 of us, and we got to climb over the footlights, walk around in the audience (on rubber-lok mats), hand out lollipops, and sit in guys' laps. Tee-hee! The only part of the costume that was at all heavy was the papier mache' head, and it rested on the shoulders, so it wasn't a big deal. I loved being anonymous. I embarrassed the *bleep* out of my mother when she came to see us un Salt Lake City, and the company manager sat her in the front row....I hugged her, and yelled, "I wuv yew, Mommy!" She didn't quite crawl under the seat...

Good morning! I love to read your stories, please tell me more! We have DST here, but no one likes it - they say it saves money on street lighting and other things.

That is beautiful skating - I'm jealous that I never learnt it but my equilibrium was never good: I even don't cycle anymore. But my eyes are good enough for reading and my hands are good for lots of hobbies and odd jobs.

Patricia, IMO there is nothing more frightening than a "stage mother/father"! I was lucky; my parents just wanted me to enjoy whatever I chose. Dad turned me on to books by reading me to sleep until I learned to read by myself (took me a while; I'm dyslexic, and they didn't even have a word for that when I was in school. I also needed glasses; got my first pair when I was in 2nd grade...very unusual in 1948.) I am totally addicted to print.

BTW, my HANDS have always been clumsy, and my best friends in high school were three of the majorettes. I wanted to go to the away games on the band bus, so I learned to play the only instrument that doesn't require manual dexterity (or reading music)...the bass drum! I also learned how to "guide" when I was in the marching band, and that came in very handy when I joined Holiday. Half the numbers we did involved some precision, and there was always one number in the show that was fairly close to military-type drill. Audiences loved it...when we got it right.